Equity Analyst – AI Equity Research

Job Description

Senior Equity Research Analyst, AI Platform | Versant Media

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Versant Media, located in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Versant Media is an industry-changing media and entertainment business, home to trusted brands like CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, and Golf Channel, operating across political news, business news, golf, and sports entertainment markets. This position is central to building a new generation of AI-powered equity research, designed for investors who are driven to apply their fundamental research judgment to scalable systems rather than repetitive, company-by-company processes. The role offers a unique opportunity to future-proof an investing career by translating advanced equity analysis into software, models, and AI-enabled products, directly contributing to core research, product, and modeling decisions within a high-caliber, low-bureaucracy team.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
• Pay: $200000–$235000 yearly
• Team: Small, high-caliber team collaborating closely with engineering and senior leadership.
• Mission: Build and operate core components of an AI equity research engine, converting unstructured information into structured signals and turning those signals into consistent, scalable outputs for individual investors.
• Tech Stack: LLM workflows, APIs, DAGs, databases

What You’ll Actually Do
• Platform Development: Convert equity research insights and conclusions into scalable AI equity research platform features that help individual investors with stock discovery, research, and selection.
• LLM Workflow Design: Design and evaluate LLM-based workflows to process unstructured data, analyze it, and translate it into structured metrics and factors.
• Model Development: Develop and evaluate the performance of sector-based factor models using a combination of traditional fundamental research, statistical techniques, and quantitative factor design.
• Investment Alignment: Oversee stock-picking models alignment to surface the best opportunities for a large retail investor audience and produce structured reports supporting them.
• Engineering Partnership: Partner with Engineering to implement pipelines (APIs, DAGs, databases), establish reproducible backtests/evaluations, and ship analysis features/capabilities.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Others. 4+ years of buy-side public markets investing experience (hedge fund, long-only fund, family office, or endowment) focusing on long-term, fundamental analysis. Candidates must be currently employed at a hedge fund or have been within the past six months.
• Experience: Contribution to a rigorous, process-driven strategy at a successful buy-side firm, including involvement in idea generation, research, and portfolio analysis. Practical LLM workflow experience in equity research workflows such as prompt/context engineering, structured extraction, and error analysis.
• Skills: Programming, coding, or working with data; systemic, data-driven thinking with a strong bias toward building scalable solutions; strong forensic accounting knowledge, including building three-statements and sector-wide models.
• Bonus: Multi-sector experience and proven ability to independently perform fundamental research across sectors that has driven long-term investment decisions.